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Read_once(), Write_once(), but Not for Rust

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#WritersCoffeeClub 3/25. Describe your workflow if it had to be 100% analog.

I'm sure I can remember how to write. (joke)

Since I'm a #writeOnce pantser who edits as he goes, putting the words down on paper would be just as easy but there would be a lot of corrections as I went along.

But that's fine.

Or I could use a typewriter like I did for my first two books, remembering to use carbon paper so I have two copies.

It would take longer.

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#WordWeavers 7/12. What's the earliest version of your stories that you allow others to see?

I write once, start to end, no revisions, no rewrites (apart from a pass for grammar/spelling), all my readers are essentially getting the first and only draft.

I was just looking at my WIP-in-waiting CAT PEOPLE (prequel to MONSTERS) that I wrote a portion of during Nano'23, and here's a completely raw extract.

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I ... I'm typically a #WriteOnce author. I don't really do "second drafts". I do so much of my planning and plotting before-hand, that there's not much to edit other than checking for typoes, weird bits of characterization, and other 'clean up' sorts of things.

My method is not for everyone, though!

@pretensesoup

Unusually, my current novel has three! I'm usually a #WriteOnce author, but this blasted novel has not worked until I figured out the key. I will be starting over on Monday and I anticipate I'll be back to one-and-done again. Phew!

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I #WriteOnce. I know where my story is going pretty much from the beginning. (This is helped by the fact that I'm a heavy plotter, of course.)

But also, I just know where I'm going and what I want to have happen (and what the characters need to do to *make* that happen.)

I'm doing editing and alpha reading for a friend writing his first novel, and wow, is his process different. He's a WriteManyTimes sort of dude. It's startling what a difference it makes. 1/3

Writing Wonders Day 3/31. Have you ever written alternative endings for yourself?

...nope.

Seems like a waste of time to me, when I could be writing the next book.

I do usually have a vague idea of the end, so I have a direction to head, but even that can change.

My best example of that is when I pantsed a 100K crime thriller with a twist ending I didn't see coming. And it was perfect.

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My book REBEL DRAGON is now at #20 in Amazon's UK Fantasy chart, once again zipping past the Return of the King.

I'm sure the natural order will re-assert itself in a day or so, but it's always nice .

And I have 438 reviews/ratings averaging 4.5*. Plus a 60% readthrough to the rest of the series.

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@adaddinsane @JoanGrey @allisonwyss So I can join the club! Yay!

As for the novel rewrites, I'm doing one in a microcosm. I found a compelling novelette I wrote in another medium and have started adapting it to the #sff universe I #amwriting for commercial release. If you've being following my responses to writing wonders, this one will star my #antagonist Rainy Days as the #protagonist in 1st person. So far it's a lot of transcription and translation, but some parts simply won't work and will have to be reimagined. Not sure if that's #writeOnce or not. 😇​